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Hello! Welcome to my blog. My name is Marianne and I live in Melbourne with my husband and our very fluffy cat, Babycat. (Who, at 7 years old, is hardly a kitten anymore but she will always be our baby!) I grew up in London and moved to Melbourne aged 22 for adventure and for love, which turned out to be a great idea as we are now happily married. I love vintage, especially the 1930s to the 1950s, and can skip happily over some of the 1960s to enjoy lots of that beautiful and otherworldly 1970s stuff. Here I write about my life in Melbourne and the things that interest me: clothes (especially of the vintage kind), beauty, makeup, food, interiors, travel, books, films (old ones please), going out, staying home, cocktails in bars, dinners in restaurants, breakfasts in cafes, walking in parks, biking down backstreets, taking photographs in conspicuous places, drinking coffee in bed, my endless love of platform shoes, and sometimes cats, too.

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Sunday, 14 October 2012

As per my New Year resolutions, I have been wearing my (tiny, growing) collection of vintage hats more often. Ok, so it's October. Better late than never, right?

Last Saturday I wore my coral bow hat. Another veil! It was cold and raining and I wore an outfit inspired by my late Aunt-in_law, but more about that another time. I liked how the coral looked with my freshly lilac'd hair.

I am enjoying the lilac so much! I love wearing a creamy orangey lipstick with it, too. I was wearing a cheap high street one a couple of months ago in a pretty good shade, but the formula was horrible, and life is too short for cheap lipsticks! As I've said before, I love Lime Crime's lipsticks, and so I hopped online and bought this one, Cosmopop. I love that I am lucky enough to get makeup from Lime Crime to review, and I wanted to let you know that I really do love their products and actually buy them, too!

I haven't been wearing any makeup during the week for a few weeks now, as I kept having an allergic reaction to... something? that made my eyes swell up so much I could barely see, and left my eyelids raw, lumpy and red, which was both uncomfortable and unlovely. Lots of antihistamines and lashings – boom? – do excuse the pun – of steroid cream later and I am back to normal, and have narrowed it down to... I'm not sure. I just can't work it out. Anyway, I am glad to be better, and it has made enjoy wearing makeup even more. I'm not embarrassed to go out without makeup, I just enjoy painting a new face. Eyebrows! And eyeliner, at the moment, too. Liquid liner, extra thick, even thicker than usual, for me. With pale-ish lips and peachy cheeks, it's my new favourite makeup look.

Wow, that is a great combination of colours. Love the veil and love the fact that it is not 'perfect' - I have a black hait almost the same. Just stunning. Hope your allergy gets better, been there done that with eye allergies. Do you have a good eye make up remover? The Clinique blue one is great. . . M x

How splendidly beautiful! Vivid coral and soft lilac seem decidedly fresh together, and is a combo that I'll be tucking away to try myself come next spring. Thanks for the delightful inspiration, dear gal.

I know I had a bad reaction to eye makeup (after years of having no problems) that made my eyes itch, swell up, and made my eyelashes fall out! I've switched over to mineral & plant based makeup - Gabriel and ZuZu Luxe have great colors - and I haven't had a problem since.